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Panels, Roundtables, and Labs
1. Health in/and Crisis
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36. Exploring health in the context of territorial inequalities
Conveners: Daniele Karasz, Sladana Adamovic, Adrienne Homberger
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 1 | 09:00-10:30 | Room 2-0-2
Emma Fàbrega Domènech: Struggling to Make Health Matter: Community-Driven Responses and Social Innovation in Montcada i Reixac, a peripheral Barcelona Municipality
Jónleyg Djurhuus: (Im)mobilities: Managing moral, structural and geographical boundaries to health care and social services in a small-scale island society in the Nordics
Keshav Sawarn: Territorial Inequalities and Community Resistance: Ethnographic Insights into Structural Health Disparities in Rural Jharkhand
Stephaine Meysner: Territorialising Cancer Inequalities: Ethnographic Insights From Within England’s North-South Divide
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42. History in Care: Tracing Historical Entanglements
Conveners: Kristine Krause, Monika Palmberger
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1, 2 | Room 4-0-4
Devin Flaherty: Hospice as History in the American (Post)Colony
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves: Remnants of Care: Afterlives of a Lethal Drug
Inga Haaland: Growing Up in the Clinic: Intergenerational Care and the Role of Clinics for GenZ Born with HIV
Marie Leine: Uneasy Care: Tracing Silences and Recognition in Danish Shelters
Veronika Prieler: “Places of new community and cultural centers”: Care homes for Transylvanian Saxons in Germany
Julia Rehsmann: Digital divides and hidden labour during Covid-19
Milena Wuerth: 'Transforming' UK mental healthcare? A case study of continuities in psychiatric care from the archives of one London hospital
Yuan Yan: Still in the Danwei: How Danwei Memory Anchors People with Dementia in an Urban Care Home in China
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45. Making sense of mortality in the era of polycrisis
Conveners: Maija Butters
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 4-0-2
Tenzin Namdul: Death and Happiness: Exploring the Temporalities of the Meditated Death and Everyday Life in Tibetan Buddhist Practice of Tukdam
Sam Power Nelson: Dissolving the Self: Death, Consciousness, and Ontological Imagination in a Time of Crisis
Sandrine Ndahiro: Politics of death in Necropolitical and Deathscape sites
Yvon van der Pijl: Remember Us: Ecological Grief & Response-Ability through Ritualization and Performative Arts
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49. (Post)socialist health and medicine: examining alternative political economies, biopolitics and circulations
Conveners: Alila Brossard Antonielli, Nils Graber
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1 | 09:00-10:30 | Room 6-0-1
Amelie Katczynski: Training nurses as vanguards of public health? Ethnographic insights from a nursing school in the Lao People's Democratic Republic
Zoé Richard: “The working Unified Health System” in a post(anti)-socialist context: emergence and persistence of a new public infectious diseases hospital in Rio de Janeiro.
Barbora Buzássyová: An alternative approach to eradicating child malnutrition: Czechoslovak nutritionists, Psophocarpus and the East – South scientific cooperation during the Cold War
Olga Temina: Continuity of biopolitics in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia: What policy documents can tell us
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 2 | 11:00-12:30 | Room 6-0-1
Anita Prsa: A road to ‘custodial’ post-Yugoslav welfare state: Development of volunteerism and civil society in the case of Croatian palliative care
Shu Wan: Medicine or Miracle?: The Cure of Hearing Loss and Its Ideological Implications in Socialist China
Jasmina Polovic: Transition in Session: Adequacy of Mental Health Services on the Ground
Phoebe Zhou: Socialist Cure for a Distressed Post-socialist Society: Re-Imagining Psychiatry Amidst China’s Mental Health Crisis
Roundtables
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R11. Crisis of Digital Addictions: Anthropological Perspectives on a Growing Concern
Conveners: Suzana Jovicic, Joseph Tulasiewicz
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 2-0-2
Henni Alava: Painful screentime: morality, addiction and care at pediatric pain clinics
Isabelle Fioroni: Comforted or Controlled? The Ambivalence of Human-AI Relationships
Pietro Vereni: Data Reliability and Cultural Intimacy: Understanding Social Media’s Impact Among Italian Adolescents
Xin Zhan: Can’t Stop Coding: The Addictive Nature of Work in Techno-Capitalism
2. Health and Environment
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4. Intersecting Frontiers: Towards understanding intersections among climate change, culture, gender, and health in the Anthropocene
Conveners: Sadiq Bhanbhro, Inayat Ali
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | 11:00-12:30| Slot 2 | Room 2-0-1
Ana Cerezuela, Anna Molas, Helena Montasell: Making future in a changing climate: Maternal experiences of environmental risk and strategies for sustaining life in Barcelona
Farzana Habib: Syndemics of Food Insecurity, Mental illness, Tobacco use and Gender: Exploring the vulnerability of slum women in Dhaka City, Bangladesh
Megan Schmidt-Sane: Climate change, informality, and sexual and reproductive health: An emergent “syndemic” in Kampala, Uganda
Eswarappa KASI: Health Emergency of Gond and Panika Women during the Pandemic: An Empirical Study from Anuppur District of Madhya Pradesh, Central India
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | 13:30-15:00 | Slot 3 | Room 2-0-1
Isabelle Lange: Heat, risk, and gendered agency: Technocratic responses to climate change and the politics of maternal health
Young Su Park: Gendered Vulnerabilities of Female-Headed Households and Health Impact of Climate Crisis in Kiribati
Isabella M. Radhuber: Health Under Climate Pressure: An Emerging Research Agenda
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24. Decoupling Health and Well-Being in Contexts of Conflict and Environmental Distress
Conveners: Ahmad Moradi, Letizia Bonanno
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 2-0-4
Yasmynn Chowdhury: Remaking life otherwise: Relational well-being across the Rohingya diaspora [working title]
Roos Metselaar: In the absence of a solution. An ethnographic study on living a good life with PFAS.
Gauri Pathak: "We have been raised on dust, we come from dust”: Toxic exposures and permeable bodies in a South Asian cement factory
Gloria Perez-Rivera: Being Alive or Having a Life: Colombian Displaced Older Adults' Understandings of Rural Lives, Well-Being and Health
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26. Unstable Environments: Health and Healing in Remote Places
Conveners: Meoïn Hagège, Laura Burke
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-1
Charles Beach: "Working Remote" in health development research: digital methods and state neglect in periurban migrant communities of the Colombo-Venezuelen borderlands.
Shagufta Bhangu: Morality and Healthcare in India's Frontiers
Jihui Kuang: Invisible Sacrifices: Pneumoconiosis as Marginalized Health
Wren Wilson: Remote but Resilient: HIV, Stigma, and State Absence on a Scottish Island
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32. Rethinking Species Extinction and Disease Eradication
Conveners: Rebecca Marsland, James Staples
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 2-0-4
Michele Friedner: Eradicating Deafness but Abandoning Deaf Children?
Maki Kitagawa: Erasure or Hunt? Practical and Ethical Contradictions of CSF Control in Japan
Rebecca Marsland: Eradicating Extinction: Contradictions in Beekeeping
James Staples: Leprosy elimination and the social lives of bacteria
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33. Places of well-being: exploring space and relationality in redefining the concept of well-being
Conveners: Danai Toursoglou-Papalexandrou, Dimitris Ballas, Elli Papastergiou
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 2-0-4
Emma Lengle: Urban planning as care and of care: approaches to ecosocial inequities in health and well-being in Norwegian city government
Marie Voerman: “Community empowerment and resilience: local perspectives and collaborative public health interventions for systemic change in ecosyndemic neighbourhoods in the Netherlands” – a Protocol Paper
Elli Papastergiou: Is simply green enough for well-being? Unpacking the complex relationship of urban green space and subjective well-being.
Roundtables
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R02. Bodies and Environments as Infrastructure: Injury, Extraction, and Resistance in Transnational Food Systems
Conveners: Gerardo Rodriguez Solis, Seth M. Holmes
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-4
Kamil Matuszczyk: ‘What could happen to me? A brick won't fall on my head.’ Reflections from field research on the safety and health of Ukrainian seasonal workers in agriculture in Poland
Paul Sperneac-Wolfer: Knowing heat. Conflicts around greenhouse heat stress management in Austrian agro-industrial food production.
Jakub Stachowski: Navigating Precarious Lives: Migrant Workers in the Norwegian Salmon Industry
Mael Vizcarra, Alesandra Tatić: Where’s the Proof? : The Production of Evidence in Food System Worker Labor Struggles
3. Disability and Chronicity
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3. Confronting the Inevitable
Conveners: Matthew Wolf-Meyer
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 4-0-6
Elspeth Davies: Challenging the Inevitability of Cancer Deaths in the UK’s National Health Service
Sinem Gunes: “They Don’t Know Either”: Side Effects, Hormonal Therapy, and the Limits of Medical Knowledge in Breast Cancer Care
Anthony Rizk: At the end of privatized healthcare: Economic collapse and the alter-politics of health in Lebanon
Arnav Sethi: ‘Still Sub-Therapeutic’: Ethnographic Reflections on Evidence-Based Lithium Prescribing in the UK
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 4-0-6
Annette Leibing: Inevitable aging: Punks’ and Jehova’s Witnesses’ ‘apocalyptic futures’
Jaya Mathur: Skimming the Edge of the Painful Body: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Contested Disease Category of Fibromyalgia in India
Livia Wright: Confronting the Inevitable: Dementia Between Medical and Social Worlds
Discussion
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9. Sustaining life in debilitated environments: expanding ideas of contagion, chronicity and care in the “age of disability”
Conveners: Júlia Fernandez, Rosamund Greiner
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 4-0-6
Samiksha Bhan: Dis/abling Cure: Medical humanitarianism, therapeutic markets and the failure of proximate care for thalassemia-affected in India
Emma Bunkley: Interembodiment, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Health
Maria Elisa Dainelli: The contagion of suicide: Good and bad death in ethnoclinical context.
Marcela González-Agüero, Valentina Turén, Angélica Farías-Cancino: Appealing for the right to live: Care, precarity and the risk of a slow death for Chilean children and young people with SMA
Daniela Jacob Pinto: Feeling each other's pain: injury and healing amongst citizens mutilated in protests in present day France
Narod Seroujian: Debilitated Bodies, Relational Wounds: (Un)stitching Care in Lebanon
Ramsha Usman: Always Injured, Never Disabled: Workers Health in Sustainable Ecologies of Production
Lindsay Vogt: Others in the Self: (Inter)corporeality and Affective Entanglement between Mother, Daughter, and Home in End-of-Life Care
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17. Care and Transition in Chronic and Rare Conditions
Conveners: Malgorzata Rajtar, Eva-Maria Knoll
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1 | 09:00-10:30 | Room 4-0-6
Valentine Gourinat, Francesca Incagli, Alice Colombo, Martina Lanza, Ruta Butkeviciene, Lina Danuseviciene, Yaël Slaghmuylder, Emelien Lauwerier, Lisa Gittel, Aggée Célestin Lomo Myazhiom, David Le Breton, Hélène Dollfus: Transitions to Adulthood for Youth with Rare Genetic Eye Diseases: A Sociological Analysis of Care, Support, and Quality of Life
Valentina Turén, Marcela González-Agüero, Constanza Quezada, Ivonne Vargas: Living against time: Care, chronicity and legal struggles of patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy in Chile
Claire Mavis: Diagnosed and Dumped: hEDS Care and the Diagnostic Moment
Eva-Maria Knoll: Between Having to Perform and Being Disabled: Adults with sickle-cells visualizing care
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 2 | 11:00-12:30 | Room 4-0-6
Yiting (Eliza) Ge: Imagining the Future Elsewhere: Hope, Transnational Care, and Rare Disease Patients in China (ONLINE)
Meng Kou: Endless pain, hope that is not understood, eternal mental strength -Ethnography of migrant family with young adult patient of sickle cell disease in France
Zuzanna Kuffel: "Complicated" Veins in "Complicated" Women: Pelvic Venous Insufficiency as Condition Multiple
Clara Fabian Therond: The changing nature of hope: following its journey across pathways of personalised medicine care in late stage cancer treatment settings (ONLINE)
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3 | 13:30-15:00 | Room 4-0-6
Sabina Vassileva: The Loop in Transition: Attending to Hormonal Intra-actions in Automated Diabetes Care
Nicoletta Diasio: Parents in between: medical transition and intergenerational relationships in France (ONLINE)
Ilaria Lesmo: Generatively Unsettling Care: On Distrust and Failure in Transition to Imagine New Forms of Care
Malgorzata Rajtar: In limbo. Entanglements of care, ethics, and law in transition processes of people with rare diseases
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19. Entangled temporalities of the experience of “chronic living” with technological devices
Conveners: Agathe Camus, Lucie Dalibert, Valentine Gourinat
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1 | 9:00-10:30 | Room 4-0-5
Lydie Bichet: Living with Chronic Illness and Technological Devices: DT1 as “Another Pace of Life”
Gabrielle Hanley-Mott: Function, Fantasy, and Fragility: Imaginaries and Realities of High-Tech Hand Prostheses
Chenchen Ma: Folding Care Practices: Temporality and Prosthetic Rehabilitation
Mathilde Lancelot & Sonia Desmoulin: Living with or accompanying chronic illness and technological care: different logics of temporal entanglements
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 2 | 11:00-12:30 | Room 4-0-5
Enka Blanchard: At the mercy of a potentiometer: device repairability and disabled temporalities
Agathe Camus, Valentine Gourinat & Lucie Dalibert: Technological assemblages and bodily intimacies: An exploration of the chronic experiences of diabetics with multimorbidity
Sally Cross: Forecasting the fog: navigating crip time with health-tracking apps
Anna Christina Maukner & Ellen Algera: "I realised relatively quickly that it really stressed me out": Temporalities in self-tracking with long COVID
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21. Exhaustion as a temporal and social predicament
Conveners: Mette Bech Risør, Ayo Wahlberg, Emily Mendenhall, Karin Friederic
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 3 | 13:30-15:00 | Room 4-0-5
13:30-13:40 Brief introduction
13:40-14:00 Karin Friederic: From Burnout to ME/CFS: Legibility, Chronicity, and the Changing Diagnostic Politics of Exhaustion in Sweden
14:00-14:20 Antti Lindfors: Exhaustion and Its Discontents: Functional Disorders and Therapeutic Polarization
14:20-14:40 Camilla Braendstrup Laursen, Cecilie Winther Bang, Helle Løn: Embodied Well-being: Energy, Exhaustion, and Bodily Difference among Danish School Children strup Haslund-Thomsen, Charlotte Nørkjær Eggertsen, Søren Hagstrøm, Sine Agergaard
14:40-15:00 Robert Smith: Chakkar: the embodiment of systemic exhaustion
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 4 | 15:30-17:00 | Room 4-0-5
15:30-15:50 Fred Haocheng Lai: The Night’s Wound: Dementia, Care, and Ordinary Exhaustion in Extraordinary Times
15:50-16:10 Ida Vandsøe Madsen: Imaginal Worldbuilding: How family caregivers of people with dementia in Denmark endure exhaustion
16:10-16:30 Tanisha Spratt: Resisting Racialised Exhaustion: The Power and Politics of Black Joy
16:30-16:50 Nana Francisca Schottländer: The Resting Lab: The practice of resting against the odds
16:50-17:00 Overall discussion
Roundtables
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R03. Tracing Neurodiversity in the Global South: Reimagining Identity, Community, & Care
Conveners: Paras Arora, Shubha Ranganathan
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 4-0-3
Izem Aral: Reimagining Local Worlds of Neurodiversity: Self-cultivation and Terbiye at a Disability Awareness Event in Istanbul
Patrick Mckearney: Diverging from Diversity: Intellectual Disability in Kerala
Tanushree Sarkar: All in good time: Temporality, coloniality, and the construction of dis/ability in the global South
Chetan Sastry Vijayakumar: Finding ‘neurodiversity’ in Indian mental health spaces
Shubhangi Vaidya: EXPLORING NEURODIVERSITY IN INDIA FROM A LIFE CYCLE PERSPECTIVE
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R15. The Role of the Disabled Artist in the Polycrisis — Lived Experience, Chronicity, and Interdependence
Conveners: Justus Harris, Liza Bernstein
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 4-0-6
Phyllisa Deroze: Between Highs and Lows: Artmaking in the Rhythms of Diabetes
Justin Dougan-LeBlanc: Lived Experience as a Disabled Deaf Artist: The Impact of Core Memories on Artistic Expression and Innovations
Justus Harris: How Disabled Creators Deal with Pervasive Cultural Ableism (Dawn Gibson)
Donney Rose: Disrupting the 24-Hour Myth
4. Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction
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14. Forever Chemicals and Reproductive Health: Anthropological Perspectives on Inequities, Alternatives, and Policy Dialogs
Conveners: Pratyusha Kiran
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 4-0-6
Eleonora Bechis, Giovanni Lorenzi, Stefano Avanzi: Negotiating Environmental Harm: A Comparative Ethnography of PFAS-Affected Communities in Piemont, Veneto and the Lyon region
Edmée Ballif: Toxic reproduction: Preventing endocrine disruption in an unequal world
Marie de Lutz: Materialities of menstrual health: menstrual technologies, toxicants, and sex hormones in the Women of the Sea surf club
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18. Navigating Reproductive Ambivalence: Strategies and Subjectivities across the Global North and South
Conveners: Poonam Kamath, Luminita Mandache
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | 9:00-10:30| Slot 2 | Room 6-0-1
Carola Lorea: To be childless is to be whole: Tantric renunciate couples and post-secular approaches to voluntary childlessness
Luminita Mandache, Jessica Jerome: Unreproducible Past and Uncertain Futures: the social meaning of female voluntary sterilization in Northeast BrazilMaureen O'Dougherty: Family Lessons: Young Brazilian Women Carve Out a Future With or Without Children
Shalini Singh, Éva Beaujouan: Uncertainty in Parenthood across the Reproductive Life Course
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | 11:00-12:30 | Slot 2 | Room 6-0-1
Orit Chorowicz Bar-am, Yael Hashiloni-Dolev, Elly Teman: The Elephant in the Womb: Biological Reality and its Exclusion from Surrogacy Narratives
Poonam Kamath: #KinderwunschVerbindet: Navigating (Re)productive Precariousness, Digital Biosociality and Biosolidarity in the German Instagram space
Hamida Massaquoi: Reproductive Misfortune: The Social Navigation of Teenage Pregnancy and Motherhood in Adonkia, Sierra LeoneTurið Hermannsdóttir: Emerging reproductive narratives/subjectivities in a turbulent time and small-island context, the Faroe Islands
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22. Neo-Eugenic Practices and Reproductive Governance across the Globe
Conveners: Lucia Gentile, Clémence Jullien
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 4-0-5
Amélie Neuve-Eglise: Shaping the unborn child in contemporary Iran. Between intimacy and politics, representations and practices of pregnant Shia Muslim women
Sachiyo Yagi: Justification for Egg Freezing: Reproductive Optimisation and Moral Tensions in Contemporary Japan
Clémence Audran: What are the limits of an ethical human genetic selection? Results of an exploratory survey in France (2023-2025)
Jiaqi Liu, Dong Dong, Jianfeng Zhu, Liuxu Chen, Jiayu Li, Mei Ding, Rui Jiang: Reproductive Governance and Transnational PGT Practices among Chinese Couples
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35. Redefining Reproductive Temporalities: Bodies, Gender, Care, and Contestations in Health and Well-Being
Conveners: Falia Varelaki, Alessandra Brigo, Manon M.S. Vialle
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 2 | 11:00-12:30 | Room 4-0-5
Selen Gobelez: Temporalities in Tension: Embodied Experiences of Birth in a Neoliberal Healthcare System in Turkey
Hélène Malmanche: Temporalities of Miscarriage in Medical Care Experiences and Across the Reproductive Life Course
Marie Lafon-Bach: (Re)defining postpartum temporalities in the digital arenas
Manon Vialle: Dating Gestation: Temporal Politics of Reproductive Care across Europe
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 3 | 13:30-15:00 | Room 4-0-5
Tamara Roma: A Critique of Gestational Time Limits. A Comparison of Discourses from Historical Abortion Regulations.
Raphaël Perrin: Dating pregesnancies for abortion: medical act or political choice?
Roberta Dieguez: The use of gestational age limits as a political strategy to achieve total criminalization of abortion in Brazil
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 4 | 15:30-17:00 | Room 4-0-5
Anika König: Reproductive Temporalities at the Margins: Uncertainty, Anticipation, and the Extended Time of Assisted Conception
Veronika Siegl: Temporal attunements as modes of doing good care in prenatal counselling and decision-making
Diana Marre: Advanced Maternal Age: reproductive temporalities in Spain and UK
Beatriz Aragón Martín: “Too young to be pregnant”: temporal regimes as a racializing technique in healthcare in Spain
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37. Genital Expectations: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Gendered Meanings, Norms, and Practices Surrounding Genitalia (V3 Part I)
Conveners: Hannelore Van Bavel, Vivien Lou
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 2-0-1
Federica Manfredi: Neglected Vulvas. An anthropological research-actions about vulvar health, taboo and social invisibility
Myriam Raboldt: »...gesellschaftlich gesehen ist man nach so einer OP halt niemand mehr.« -- Eine qualitative Studie zu cis Männern mit Genitalverletzungen
Divya Rai: Absent Flesh, Present Claims: Genitalia, Recognition, and State Intervention in Hijra Lives in Uttar Pradesh, India
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39. Obstetric Violence, Care, and Technologies
Conveners: Elif Gül, Rodante van der Waal
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-1
Daiva Bartušienė: “Women like you don't give birth”: autistic women's experiences of pregnancy and childbirth in Lithuania"
Maksuda Khanam: ‘The risk is yours if something happens to your baby’-an exploration of obstetric violence during childbirth among middle class women in Bangladesh
Ivana Nikolić: "Pregnancy Hurts—Get Over It”: The Normalisation of Obstetric Violence in Serbia and its Human Rights Implications
Syahirah Rasheed: Bidan, Bismillah, Biomedicine: Muslim doulas build epistemological bridges against obstetric violence in Singapore
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40. Environments of Care and Harm: Pushing the Boundaries of SRHR Research
Conveners: Andie Thompson
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-1
Vanessa-eduardo Arteaga Bernal-erazo Acosta: The power of ancestral philosophy Alli kawsay (Buen Vivir) in indigenous movements of Colombia - Ecuador vs. exclusion by big mining, contribution Rights of Mother Nature from the global south
Lucía Berro Pizzarossa, Rishita Nandagiri, Kinga Jelinska, Ernestina Coast, Joe Strong: Constellations, crises and care: the role of Women Help Women in COVID19-shaped abortion trajectories
Shahana Siddiqui: The Road to Bangladesh Climate Reality is Paved with Good Intentions and Reproductive Regimes
Andie Thompson: Maternal susceptibility: ontologies of toxic exposure
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41. Care Unsettled: Queer in Medical Anthropology
Conveners: Christopher Zraunig, Max Schnepf
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 4-0-6
Kenan Gu: From “Fangzhi” to “Fangzhi”: The Logic of Prevention and Care in AIDS Policies and Everyday Lives of Gay and MSM Communities in China
Max Schnepf: What Sticks: PrEP, Responsibility, and the Pleasure of Not Caring
Anahí Farji Neer: Trans Healthcare and Professional Reflexivity in Argentina: Queering Medical Authority?
Rhea Bose: Reimagining Care: Looking at Diverse Understandings and Practices of Transmasculine Gender Affirmation in Mumbai, India
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 4-0-6
Moxi Ochsenbauer: The Unmaking of ESI: Reflections on Political Backlash, Queer Grief, and Care in Buenos Aires
Christopher Zraunig: Tinkering with Touch: Queering Care through Sexual Assistance in Geriatric Institutions.
Celeste Pang: Stranger Than Family: The Queer Socialities of Dementia Care
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47. The Uterus: Knowledges, Practices, Imaginaries
Conveners: Leah Eades, Marie de Lutz
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 6-0-1
Clarissa Cavalcanti: Yo me sentía un bicho raro: Experiences and trajectories of women with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser Syndrome
Andrea Whittaker, Sophia Avice, Cal Volks: Imaginaries and Practices of the Uterus in Uterus transplantation
Ji-young Lee: Transgender Inclusive Uterus Transplantation
Paula Martone, Anna Molas: Just like a real uterus? Insights from health professionals and parents on the promises of the Artificial Placenta
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 6-0-1Leah Eades: Two Wombs of One’s Own: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Congenital Uterine Anomalies
Patricia Li Leiter: Endometriosis: The Politics of Underdiagnosing Disease
Raisa Ferrer Pizarro: The Tacit Organ: Presence and Omission of the Uterus in Obstetric Communication in Peru
Ema Hresanova: ‘Everything is the way it should be’: The ethical work of the uterus and moral assemblages in Czech women’s birth narratives
Roundtables
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R13. “Reproductive Justice”: Are We Doing Justice to the Term?
Conveners: Kim Sigmund, Shahana Siddiqui
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 4-0-6
Md Asaduzzaman: Wombs Under Watch: Reproductive Struggles in the Shadow of Care of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
Sreeparna Chattopadhyay: Just for whom? Problematising Reproductive Justice in India
Andrea Del Pilar Trujillo Rodríguez, Guilherme Lamperti Thomazi, Cristiane da Silva Cabral: Reproductive Justice for All? Challenges Faced by Trans Men and Transmasculine People in Brazil
Simon Fern: Reflections on care from work with immigrant mothers in Spain
Christlord Foreste: From Slavery to Biocapitalism: Race, Gender, and Power in Contemporary Reproductive Technologies
5. Medicine and Technologies
Panels
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1. The rise of the Digital Imaginaries: Redefining global health and well-being
Conveners: Edwin Ambani Ameso, Azza Mustafa Babikir Ahmed
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 2-0-1
Egnonnam Sandra Dellya Zannou: Care trajectories and experiences of breast cancer patients: a socio-anthropological analysis based on cases observed at the CNHU-HKM in Cotonou
José Pinto Da Costa: Reimagining Portuguese Digital Healthcare: Future-makers’ insights and concerns
Sanaullah Khan: Public Health echo chambers: Contested "science" and vaccine denialism on digital platforms
Shweta Rani: Seeing without data: A Case of Dengue Control in Delhi -
8. Bridging the Divide: Connecting Humans and Technology in Algorithmic Cultures
Conveners: Zongtian Guo, Michal Frumer, Mette Høybye
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 4-0-4
Ismail Umar: Imagining AI Futures: Socio-Technical Imaginaries Among Healthcare Professionals in a Dutch Hospital
Matteo Valoncini: Algorithmic identities and the digitalization of care: an ethnography of General Practice in Italy
Sophie Wagner: Living in the Loop: Tech Imaginaries and Patient Labor in Type 1 Diabetes Care
Klara-Aylin Wenten: Feeling Technology: How Emotion AI Rewrites Bodies, Emotions and Genders
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15. The platformization of medicine? Digital diagnostics, advanced therapies, and drug repurposing
Conveners: Sarah Wadmann. Anna Brückner Johansen, Tineke Kleinhout-Vliek, Laura Emdal Navne
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 4-0-2
Marie-Laure Guilland, Claire Beaudevin, Séverine Louvel: Crafting customized centralization: platformization of genomics in rare diseases in France
Anna Brueckner Johansen: Platformization of payment? Curating value in gene therapy
Michael Morrison: Adaptive manufacturing: Initial thoughts on an emerging manufacturing platform for personalised medicine
Mette N. Svendsen, Laura Emdal Navne: Wayward platformization: genomes as doppelgangers in transnational relations
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25. From Welfare to Watchful Care: Digital Surveillance and State-Citizen Relations
Conveners: Laura Louise Heinsen, Nete Schwennesen, Mikkel Kenni Bruun
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 2 | 11:00-12:30 | Room 2-0-1
Introduction
Nilufer Akalin: From Care to Control: The Hidden Surveillance Network in Immigrant Healthcare
Kristina Grünenberg, Line Hillersdal: Surveillance care: techno-care arrangements in South Korean eldercare
Astrid Meyer, Stinne Aaløkke Ballegaard, Anders Albrechtslund, Virginie Behar, Polina Velyka: Responsibility and Intentionality in Socio-Material Assemblages: Data-Intensive Surveillance in Dementia Care
Laura Louise Heinsen, Nete Schwennesen: From Surveillance to Distributed Attention: Reframing Digital Surveillance in Dementia Care
Closing Remarks / General Discussion
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30. Health as ecology: promises of health and well-being in biotechnological approaches across humans and more-than-humans
Conveners: Victor Secco, Charlotte Brives
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 4-0-2
Luciano Ferrari: I Am Not Your Data: Valuable Microbes and the Measure of Goodness
Mikko Jauho: Health from biodiversity: microbes-mediated interventions for allergy control
Sylvain Lallier: The microbiome multiple. Beyond a metagenomics-driven technological determinism
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38. The Politics and Epistemologies of Collaboration: Inter/Transdisciplinarity as Method in Techno-Human Data Assemblages
Conveners: Lisa Lehner, Roberta Raffaetà
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 4-0-2
Andrea Butcher: Opportunity or Iconoclasm? Moments of inspiration and doubt in interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation
Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund: Medical anthropologists in global ‘One Health’ assemblages: Interrogating science-driven collaborations
Hana Porkertová: ConceptLeaks: Reflections on the collaboration across disciplinary membranes
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46. Sociality with/through AI in Health and Medicine: Current Figurations, Imagined Futures
Conveners: Bernhard Hadolt
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 4-0-2
Tanja Ahlin, Anna Mann: Ambivalent Socialities: Resistance, Relationality, and Care Robots in Clinical Settings
Jorge Castillo-sepúlveda: Time re-configured: five shifts in the configuration of medical temporality mediated by Artificial Intelligence. A multi-sited case study in Chile.
Hannah Piehl: Reconfiguring Trust: A Cartography of Trustworthiness of AI Systems in Healthcare
Meiting Wang: Designing Care: Investigating Care Ethics and Developer Responsibility in AI Mental Health Applications
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48. Epistemological bounds of medical technologies: Iatrogenic effects and new conceptions of health
Conveners: Alexandra Jønsson
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 2 | 11:00-12:30 | Room 4-0-2
Bodil Just Christensen: Pharmacological innovation and health inequity: an ethnographic study of Wegovy in severe obesity
Anna Louise Skovgaard, Mette Terp Høybye: Medical decision-making in the subjunctive mood. An ethnographic study of the enactment of shoulder care
Costanza Torre: Side effects as sites of contestation: ethnographic reflections on experiences of care and oppression in the global migration regime
Maurizia Mezza: Rendering Side Effects Visible: Pharmacovigilance, Iatrogenesis, and the Politics of Recognition
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3 | 13:30-15:00 | Room 4-0-2
Natalia Filar: Psychiatric self-diagnosis through social-media as a response to socio-economic inequalities in Polish medical services
Charlotte Nørholm, Mette Terp Høybye: Mass Testing, Riskscapes, and Diagnostic Biocitizenship: Ethnographic Perspectives on COVID-19 Testing in Denmark
Kelly Mulvaney: History in Cervical Cancer Epidemiology and Etiology, or, Is Cervical Cancer a 'Sexually Transmitted Disease'?
Sarah Wadmann, Laura Emdal Navne, Mette Hartlev: Resource constraints and patient rights: the co-production of medical and regulatory innovation in the Danish welfare state
Roundtables
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R04. Weight loss on prescription: New drugs, new moral challenges, and new types of weight stigma?
Conveners: Pernille Andreassen, Fernanda Scagliusi, Alexandra Brewis
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 4-0-2
Rachael Drewery: Accessing weight loss medication within an intensive, multi-component weight management programme
Sissel D. Jensen: Tinkering with Weight Loss Medication: GLP-1ra, Clinical Care, and Moral Negotiations in Danish General Practice
Fernanda Scagliusi: From “Ozempic is my best friend” to “Ozempic made me do a bariatric”: Experiences of Brazilian fat women with GLP-1 agonists.
Megan Warin: ‘Dear Science’: How the weaponisation of nutrition science tools serve commercial markets of weight loss injectables
Oli Williams: How will the availability of GLP-1 drugs shift weight management norms and influence weight stigma?
6. Plural Perspectives on Health and Healing
Panels
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2. Engaging Plurality, Negotiating Diversity: Sowa Rigpa Practices and Perspectives in/on a Changing World
Conveners: Stephan Kloos, Barbara Gerke
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 4-0-3
Dara Bramson: Braiding Knowledges: Ethnographic Case Studies of Sowa Rigpa in Exile
Kei Nagaoka: Herbs, Senses, and Sowa Rigpa: An Ethnographic Study of the Embodied Experience of Herbal Medicine in Arunachal Pradesh, the Eastern Himalayas
Patricia Mundelius: A Paradoxical Kind of Suffering: Negotiating Emotional Care within Sowa Rigpa Consultations in Europe
Stephan Kloos: Rethinking Participant Observation: An Exile Perspective on Tibetan Medicine
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 4-0-3
Barbara Gerke: Negotiating Legitimacy and Healing: Plural Landscapes of Sowa Rigpa and Governance during the COVID-19 Pandemic in India and Bhutan
Isabella Würthner: The Female Reproductive System And The Role Of Gender-Specific Infectious Diseases In The Tibetan World
Elizabeth Turk: Searching for the ‘root cause’ of illness and moral aetiology in Mongolian health settings
Stacey Van Vleet: Bonesetting between Tibetan scholarly medicine and Mongolian "common knowledge"
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7. Addiction in New Cultural and Class Contexts
Conveners: Joseph Tulasiewicz, Bhrigupati Singh, Alastair Parsons
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 2-0-1
Armaan Mullick Alkazi: Stuck between mahols (atmospheres) : binge drinking on the street in Delhi.
Lucy Clarke: "Don't worry about the God stuff": How secularity shapes recovery in London's Twelve Step Fellowships
Glikery Ulunov: Misuse as Adaptation and the Breakdown of Adaptation: Control and its Limits in Russian Gabapentinoid Use
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12. More-than-human health: challenging anthropocentric paradigms through post-humanist, ecofeminist, indigenous and decolonial perspectives
Conveners: Daniela Calvo, Sabina Vassileva
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 1 | 09:00-10:30 | Room 4-0-4
Jui-Hsin Cheng: “Green Vitality” from Germany to Taiwan: Exploring the cross-cultural transplantation of naturopathy and healing practices
Daniel Münster: Soils, carbon, and microbes. Biochar and the limits of more-than-human health
Claudia Lang: Coastal distress: The biomorality of ecological loss in Kerala, India
Verónica Calvo Valenzuela: The Where to land? workshops: A therapeutic space at the crossroads of ritual and pragmatic exercises.
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 2 | 11:00-12:30 | Room 4-0-4
Aparna Raghu Menon, Pia Kontos: Listen Louder: Decolonizing Autistic Non-Vernal Communication via Posthumanist Thought
Piera Talin: Otherwise ontologies in ayahuasca ritual experience: plants, spirits, and healing.
Natalia Tolsty: Multiple Dimensions of Body Image and Human Agency among Indigenous Communities in Los Altos de Chiapas, Mexico
Daniela Calvo: Towards a reconceptualization of relational health: Health and more-than-human entanglements in Candomblé
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16. African perspectives on health and wellbeing
Conveners: Ellen Forsman Larsson
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 4-0-4
Peter Hoesing: “The Things of Culture”: What the Durability of African Traditional Medicine Means for Postmodern Medical Anthropology
Geoffrey Nwaka: Towards Decolonizing Medicine and Healthcare: The Place of African Health and Healing Traditions
Marta Scaglioni: Beyond Extraction: Centering Tunisian Perspectives in Microbiome Research
Zelealem Leyew Temesgen: The perceptions and expressions of death among the Amhara people of Ethiopia
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20. Interrogating Medical Pluralism in Global Health: Navigating Diverse Forms of Healing and Caring in the Contemporary Healthcare Framework
Conveners: Daniele Mario Buonomo, Xu Liu, Matteo Valoncini
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1 | 09:00-10:30 | Room 4-0-4
Avilasha Ghosh: Medical Multiplicity and Care Rationalities in the Local Clinics of Delhi
Sachi Matsuoka: The Changing Landscape of Plurality in Ayurveda in Kerala, India: Interactions Between Institutional Medicine and Informal Practitioners ‘Vaidyams’
Gregory Haimovich, Herlinda Márquez Mora: Indigenous Midwifery in the Sierra Norte de Puebla: Exploring the Limits of Medical Pluralism
Simona Maisano: Navigating Pluralism: Ethnographic Insights from Multilingual Healthcare Encounters
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 2 | 11:00-12:30 | Room 4-0-4
Yuri Nonami: Community-Based Practice of Ayurveda in Japan: A Case Study from Miyazaki Prefecture
Andreadi Simanjuntak, Fotarisman Zaluchu: Interrogating the Use of Ginger to Understand the Complexity of Bataknese Notions of Well-Being
Prashant Vijay: Confrontation and Coexistence: Medical Pluralism among Gond Community of Chhattisgarh, India
Alex Gateri: Medical Pluralism in Global Health and One Health: The Chagga medicine and antimicrobial optimization efforts
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 3 | 13:30-15:00 | Room 4-0-4
Baris Kamyab Muhammedrezai: Intersecting Healing Systems: Medical Pluralism, Psychiatry, and Religion in Turkey.
Kh Neil Young: Rethinking Health Pluralism through Traditional Healing System: A Sociological Exploration of the Poumai Naga Community
Maria Trifon: Healing at the crossroads: medical pluralism and Orthodox Christian spirituality in Romania
Bregje De Kok: Re-worlding reproductive knowledge: Whose and what knowledge counts?
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29. Perception through Interaction/Interaction through Perception
Conveners: Michele Friedner, Cordelia Erikson-Davis
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 4-0-3
Cordelia Michele Erikson-Davis: Beyond the Neural Code: Rethinking Perception through Retinal Prostheses and Perception as Constitutive Interaction (PCI)
Helma Korzybska: Interactions in and with perception. Shifting perspectives to relearn to see or hear
Susanna Trnka: Traversing: Bodies, Technologies, and Movement
Sina Susanna Schüttler: Bridging Ethics and Experience in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy -
31. Challenging dominant medico-political models through sensory ecologies of health
Conveners: Josephine Biglin, Kristina Baines, Elisabeth Hsu
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 4-0-3
"Dhruv Gautam: The Materiality of Psychic Lives: Spatial and Material Healing in an In-Patient Psychiatric Ward and a Healing Shrine in North India"
Lukáš Senft, Tereza Stöckelová, Varvara Borisova: The Sensorium of Metabolic Evasion: Mitigating Toxic Cocktails in Phytotherapeutic Practice
Kaja Skoftedalen: Exploring therapeutic spaces of dhikr, a devotional sufi practice, in Southeastern Tanzania
7. Doing Medical Anthropology
Panels
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6. FRICTIONS IN HEALTHCARE ETHNOGRAPHY AS A MOTOR FOR IMPROVEMENT
Conveners: Giulia Sinatti, Jennifer Creese, Julie Salvador
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 2-0-4
Madalina Alama: “Is this true… what I heard? Five hundred dollars for an interview?”
Jesse Bia: Inducing Success: Navigating the Frictions of a Biomedical Scandal
Eliška Bydžovská: Misalignments in research on a defunded global health project in Kabul, Afghanistan
Michelle Parsons: Friction and Positionality in Palliative Care: A Nurse-Researcher's Perspective
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10. Exploring healthcare and research as creative practices
Conveners: Annekatrin Skeide, Jeannette Pols
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1 | 09:00-10:30 | Room 4-0-5
Claire Harris, Megan Warin, Tanya Zivkovic: Situating care and creative practice in research
Martin Høybye, Marie Hallager Andersen, Sarah Pini, Mette Terp Høybye: “Like being invited into another”: A film about co-creative movement in cancer rehabilitation
Rebecka Fleetwood-smith: Hospital Reimagined: Using an artwork to explore the dynamic hospital environment
Sandra Baernreuther: Ghosts of Digitalization: Storying India’s Digital Health Transformation
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 2 | 11:00-12:30 | Room 4-0-5
Tanja Bukovčan: Foregrounding Creativity in Later-Life Sexuality: Rethinking Health, Aging, and the Good Life
Mizuki Igata: Uncertain Scripts: Exploring Theatre Practice as Care in Mental Health
Taylor Riley, Tatiane Muniz: “Not terribly arty”: Some complexities of using photovoice in biosocial ethnographic research
Ella Hillström: A Praxis of the Tentacular Face: A Somatic Essay
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13. Multi-perspectival ethnography in medical anthropology
Abstracts
Conveners: Kiara Wickremasinghe, David Mosse
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3 | 13:30-15:00 |Room 4-0-5
Neda Deneva, Diotima Bertel, Julia Himmelsbach, Beatrix Wais-Zechmann, Eva Reitner: Making Pain Personal: Embodied Relationships and Reflexive Multiplicity in Collaborative Research
Janette Lindroos, Henni Alava :Gaining, Holding, and Sharing Knowledge in Ethnographies of Doubtful Pediatric Conditions
Susan Whyte, Hanne Mogensen: Covid 19 in Uganda: Multiple perspectives on uncontrolled youth and life course interruptions
Anne-Sophie Guernon: Letting Their Voices Shine: Creating Space for Different Perspectives in Multi-Sited Hospital Ethnography
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 4 | 15:30-17:00 | Room 4-0-5
Irene Maffi, Daniel Delanoë: On the collaboration between anthropologists and ethnopsychiatrists: two experiences in France and in Italy
Eva Steinberger, Obinna Eze: Navigating multi-perspectival collaboration: Reflections from a Nigerian-German anthropological tandem in a transdisciplinary One Health project
Heidi Fjeld, Theresia Hofer: What Collaborations, With Whom and How? The Ethics and Ends of Ethnographic Fieldwork with Tibetans in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), China
Sandra Staudacher, Katja Jungo, Nora Peduzzi, Séverine Soiron, Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund: Navigating Multi-Perspectival Participation: Ethnographic Insights from the Swiss Long-Term Care Sector
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23. Doing Care: pedagogy, methodology, fieldwork
Conveners: Arushi Sahay, Alankrita Anand
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 6-0-1
Sreeparna Chattopadhyay, Sualeha Shekhani, Priya Sharma: A caring ethics and ethics of caring: Reimagining ethical praxis using feminist ethics of care in multidisciplinary research on health and well-being
Imogen Bevan: Sugar consumption as care, research on sugar consumption as care?
Harshal Sonekar: Caste and The Changing Nature of Care: An Anthropology Study of Madhya Pradesh, India
Carolina Espinosa-Escobar, Tirsa Colmenares-Roa, Sahira De Padua Cabrera, Aczel Sánchez-Cedillo, Ingris Peláez-Ballestas: Weaving bonds of care from ethical-methodological alerts in research with renal and liver transplant recipients
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 6-0-1
Katherine Mason, Andrea Flores: Tracking Covid-19 with First-Gen Students and First-Time Ethnographers: Building a "Transformatively Supportive" Collaborative Ethnography
Regan Gee: Knowledges, care, and settler-colonialism: A CBPR study at an Indigenous-serving school
Neha Nimble: Caring by Design: Implementing Human-Centered Design (HCD) in Indian Public Health
Cynthia Beavin: How abortion doula training can build empathetic research skills in qualitative interviews
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34. Organizing Care as a research practice: Imaginative approaches
Conveners: Sabya Van Elswijk, Matouš Jelínek
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-1
Sara Gerotto: Following policies of care: engaged anthropology through "the frontline" of a community-based health experience
Amelie Lange: Synchronising Multiple Temporalities of Care - Chronic Pain Management in the Danish Welfare State
Jitse Schuurmans: Timing the End of Life: Choreographing Rhythms in Advance Care Planning
Siënna Hernandez: From Paper to Practice: The Material Life of Care
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43. Co-produced Intersectional Justice and Trauma-informed ethnographic research methodologies: emancipation and inclusion possibilities and co-optation risks
Conveners: Carolina Borda, Xandra Miguel Lorenzo
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 4-0-3
Elena Blanco de Tena-Dávila, Mercedes Serrano Miguel, Ángel Martínez Hernáez: The Guide to Collaborative Medication Management in mental health: an ethnographically co-produced empowerment-generating tool
Liam Gilchrist: Biomedical Discourses and Community-Institutional Power Relationships: An Ethnographic study of UK Community Based Participatory Research.
Xandra Miguel-Lorenzo, Thomas Osborn: Recovery College students’ self-care practices awareness: from crisis prevention to routine.
Nel Vandekerckhove: “Are You Really in Pain?”: Epistemic Injustice in Chronic Pain Patients and the Potential of Trauma-Informed Care Methods in Pain Research and Pain Medicine. -
44. The Politics of Health Care: Exploring Methodological Approaches to Exclusive Rationalities and Practices in Healthcare Systems
Conveners: Sabine Hess, Reza Bayat, Marie Fröhlich
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 3, 4 | Room 2-0-4
Reza Bayat: Borders of Healthcare / Healthcare as Bordering Process: The Production of Healthcare for Migrants in Germany
Sweta Dash, Jith Jagajeevan Remadevi, Surekha Garimella: Centering Sensitivities and Voices: Co-Producing Elements of an Intervention for Strengthening Community Voice in Urban Health Systems
Marie Lison Fröhlich: “So, who’s responsible here?”: An Ethnographic Reproduction Regime Analysis on Health Policies as Bordering Mechanisms
Carolina Garzon-Esguerra: Migration, research, illness: interdisciplinary methodological itineraries
Camille J. Laufer: Challenging Institutional Rationalities: Trans Self-Injection Workshops as Ethnographic Sites of Resistance
Yuqi Liu, Binhui Liu: Lost in Translation: Linguistic and Epistemic Insecurity in International Students’ NHS Experiences
Garvita Singh: Scoring Chronicity as Disability: Pain Disability Questionnaire in the Global South
Lot Tiebosch: On the Threshold of Care: Exploring Oscillating Compassion and Liminality in Dutch Healthcare for the Uninsured and Uninsurable
Roundtables
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R01. Material Certainties: Critical Reflections on the Future of Ethnographic Research in Disease and Pain
Conveners: Jose Manuel Allard Serrano, Sofia Ceresuela Del Valle, Rodrigo Diaz-Canio
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 2-0-4
Enka Blanchard: Pain and utilitarianism in disability studies
Livia Fernandes, Cheryl Davies, Jean Hay-Smith, Chrystal Jaye, Hemakumar Devan: INSIGHTS FROM ETHNOGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS OF A PAIN SERVICE: HIDDEN MESSAGES IN ENVIRONMENT AND INTERACTIONS
Maria Fernanda Pineda, Antonia Catalan, Maria Vega, Sebastian Castro, Teresita Gutierrez, Vicente Gomez: Towards more effective organ donation systems through design -
R06. Structural Competency: Tracing the Influence of Social Structures in Health as a Research and Teaching Agenda
Conveners: Mirko Pasquini, Margret Jäger
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 4-0-4
Nilufer Akalin: Immigrant-blind care: How immigrants experience the “inclusive” health system as they access care
Sofia Bowen: Historical Echoes of Structural Competency: Insights from Chile’s Mid-Century Psychiatric Reforms
Margret Jaeger, Monika Gritsch: Introducing structural competency in the German speaking world to tackle inequalities
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R07. Doing Medical Anthropology in the Anthropocene
Conveners: Sahra Gibbon, Paola Sesia, Jean Segata
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-4
Ivana dos Santos Teixeira: Reclaiming human-animal traditions as collective protection: about the toxicity of the meat industry in a community in the pampas of Brazil.
Jennie Gamlin: How can we make Indigenous people the ‘forces and agents of history’, by making their knowledge travel?
Victor Secco: Divining the Planetary Microbiome: AI, genomics and the future of situatedness in the life sciences
Paola M. Sesia: Health challenges in the Mexican Anthropocene: Contributions from a Critical Medical Anthropology located in the Global South
Rano Turaeva: Ethnographic Frictions in Disability Care: Shifting Paradigms in Uzbekistan’s Healthcare System
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R08. Applied Medical Anthropology in Times of Crisis
Conveners: Silvia Wojczewski, Viktoria Adler, Anna Christina Maukner, Ruth Kutalek
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 2-0-4
Nadine Beckmann, Sophie Everest: Humanising outbreak response: doing anthropology in the context of public health emergencies
Doris Burtscher: Applied Medical Anthropology in Humanitarian Contexts: Insights from Médecins Sans Frontières
Tamara Giles-Vermick: Sonar-Cities: A research-action for tackling vulnerabilities among urban populations facing climate-induced health emergencies and disasters
Young Su Park: Anamnesis of Crises: Historicity of Crises and Vulnerable Populations in Ethiopia and Kiribati
Ursula Wagner: Humanitarian health response for Ukrainian refugees in the Republic of Moldova -
R09. Crossing Boundaries between Medical Anthropology and Biomedicine (AGEM Roundtable)
Conveners: Ehler Voss, Márcio Vilar, Stefan Reinsch
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-4
Christine Holmberg: Building bridges: Understanding medical care at the crossroad from anthropology and epidemiology
Seth M. Holmes: Roundtable
Stefan Reinsch: Reflections on lerning to 'think, act and feel like a physician'.
Torsten Risør: Torsten Risør
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R12. Closing the distance? Medical anthropology between (health) activism and academia
Conveners: Sara Gerotto, Lucia Mair
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 2-0-2
Vivian Rocio Laurens-Rengifo: Blurring the lines between academia and activism: lessons from scholars/activists in Colombia
Gregory Haimovich: Participatory Action Research on Linguistic Rights in Health Care: The case of Proyecto Xochiuehpol
Youness Loukili: Counter-storytelling by local people as a means of criticizing and redesigning policies: The Case of Covid-19 in Urban Settlements in Morocco
Wren Wilson: HIV Activism, the Zero Transmission Goal, and Medical Anthropology in Scotland
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R14. How do hospitals (continue) to matter to anthropologists?
Conveners: Fanny Chabrol, Amina Soulimani
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 2-0-4
César Abadía-barrero: Can hospitals be decolonized/Are hospitals being decolonized?
Janina Kehr: On the more-than-medical in hospitals today
Mirko Pasquini: The Hospital as a Social laboratory. Investigating Privatisation and Healthcare Change Through the Lenses of Emergency Room Overcrowding.
Harris Solomon: Glitch Medicine: Cyberattacks and the Hospital's limits
Alice Street: The hospital as landfill: Burying, storing, and burning medical waste
Master Students’ Panel
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Emerging perspectives: Master’s students panel on critical engagements in medical anthropology
Conveners: Andreas Krauskopf, Paula Pospichal, Agnes Köchl
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 2, 3 & 4 | Room 4-0-3
Meera Brennan: Within and Beyond the Shadows: Sapphic Well-Being in Contemporary Italy [Master's Thesis]
Paula Eikelboom: When do young people between 15 and 18 years old feel good enough about themselves in the Netherlands
Tsumugi Hanada: Embodied Narratives: On Chronic Illness, Multiplicity, and Autoethnography
Bronte Jones: “You’re the mother because the baby is in your belly”: The experience of accessing assisted reproduction as a trans or nonbinary person in the UK
Rahel Koch: Medical Knowledge on Spotify: The potentials of patient-led podcasts to democratize knowledge of under-recognized diseases
Agnes Köchl: #Millionsmissing: ME/CFS patients in Austria and their fight for visibility and recognition
Andreas Krauskopf: Epistemological encounters: Differing understandings of mental illness in an Austrian refugee home
Paula Pospichal: Dealing with Uncertainty: Women's Lived Experience with Autoimmune Thyroid Disease
Tirza Stock: Making Mothers - Motherhood in the context of assisted reproductive technologies
Ofir Tenenbaum: Aging (un)‘successfully’ within a collapsing state: How Upper-middle-class Jewish-Israeli elders’ navigate gerontological frameworks of health and wellbeing under realities of socio-political collapse?
Wendi Xu: The Peeking Ghost on the Deathbed: End-of-Life Care under the Promise to Modernity in China
Labs
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Labs
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 2-0-2
Lab1. Cesar Enrique Giraldo Herrera, Ruth Anderwald, Stefan Schneider - Lab title: Sensory Engagements with Microbes, Interdisciplinary Explorations of Human-Microbe Relation Affordances
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 2-0-2
Lab2. Hanne Bess Boelsbjerg, Dorte Bjerre Jensen - Rest as resistance - exploring restorative practice in overstimulating times
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 4-0-2
Lab3. Kathryn Burns, Nuria Rossell, Jullia Challinor - Food as a Technology of Care: A Feminist Perspective on Nutrition, Well-being, and Health
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 2-0-2
Lab4. Maurizia Mezza, PhD, University of Amsterdam, Shahana Siddiqui, PhD, University of Amsterdam - Stitching Meaning: Feminist Textures in Theory and Practice
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 4-0-4
Lab5. Hannelore van Bavel, Vivien Lou - Meet Vulvarium and Enter a Gallery of Vulva Statues (V3Part II) - featuring a case study from 'Panel 37: Genital Expectations'
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 2-0-1
Lab6. Oli Williams, Glenn Robert, Bertil Lindenfalk - Researching and Improving Health(care) Post-Participatory Turn: can Elinor Ostrom's principles for collaborative group working help?
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 2-0-2
Lab7. Alice Street, Millie Marriott Webb - Deconstructing devices: A practical laboratory in medical plastic
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 4-0-3
Lab9. Anne-Sophie Reichert, Esther Vorwerk - In Our Own Measure: A FLINTA Workshop on Healing & Embodiment
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 2-0-1
Lab10. Ranjini Raghavendra - LAB: Health, Well-Being and Emerging Digital Technologies